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« on: March 17, 2013, 03:05:56 pm »
Welcome to RAWK Complainers Draft. The rules are as follows:

- Only players whose name begins with one of the letters in the word 'complainers' are eligible for this draft.

- You must pick one player whose name starts with each of the 11 letters in 'complainers'.

- This is an all-time draft, so there are no age limits. The player must only have played in a professional league match.

- For the purpose of this draft, the player's name is his shirt name or a commonly-used nickname (e.g. Didi) if available. If the player has neither a shirt name or a nickname, his surname is used.

- When selecting players, highlight the first letter of his name so that we avoid disputes later on.

- The draft will work like all other drafts, that is, the order of picks will be decided randomly and each member of the draft will have one hour from the last pick to make theirs. The draft order will work as usual and will go from 1 to 18, then back from 18 to 1 and again 1 to 18 and so on.

- Once the selections have been made, we'll split into 6 groups of 3, with the top team in each group and the best 2 runners up qualifying for the quarter finals.

- The draft will take place between 9.00am and 11.00pm each day, though you can still make picks out of these hours, if it's your turn.

Please PM the next person after you've made your pick or if you know you'll be unavailable when your turn comes around, please PM someone so they can select for you.

The draft starts this evening (March 17th) at 7.00pm.
« Last Edit: March 17, 2013, 03:38:28 pm by KingLuis05 »

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« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2013, 03:13:52 pm »
So, we will be considering the first letter of their first name or their surname?
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« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2013, 03:16:06 pm »
So, we will be considering the first letter of their first name or their surname?

Is it all time? Else we can keep it open, either surname or first name.

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« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2013, 03:16:27 pm »
Im guessing its the first letter of the name printed on the shirt.

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« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2013, 03:17:52 pm »
So, we will be considering the first letter of their first name or their surname?

And we need to be consistent with Brazilians (eg is it r for Roberto or c for Carlos) and what about Koreans as even after all. These years I still have no idea whether it is Ji Sung Park or Park Jung Si...what letter would he come under?

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« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2013, 03:18:15 pm »
So, we will be considering the first letter of their first name or their surname?
I think the ruling was the first letter on the back of their shirt

And just to make sure, we are allowed to pick any letter in any order we want?
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« Reply #6 on: March 17, 2013, 03:19:29 pm »
I think the ruling was the first letter on the back of their shirt

And just to make sure, we are allowed to pick any letter in any order we want?

If its all time, how will we find what the first letter on the back of their shirt was? :P

And yes, we can pick ant letter in any order we want.
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« Reply #7 on: March 17, 2013, 03:20:46 pm »
Lol yeh that's cool lets try and get it started.

Incidentally, when Samie qualified in the last draft we lost our first game for a while. Just sayin'
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« Reply #8 on: March 17, 2013, 03:21:26 pm »
Yeah of ALL TIME AND you can pick in any order. Same name back of their kits so surnames.

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« Reply #9 on: March 17, 2013, 03:23:45 pm »
Welcome to RAWK Complainers Draft. The rules are as follows:

- Only players whose name begins with one of the letters in the word 'complainers' are eligible for this draft.

- This is an all-time draft, so there are no age limits. The player must only have played in a professional league match.

- For the purpose of this draft, the player's name is his shirt name or a commonly-used nickname (e.g. Didi) if available. If the player has neither a shirt name or a nickname, his surname is used.

- When selecting players, highlight the first letter of his name so that we avoid disputes later on.


- The draft will work like all other drafts, that is, the order of picks will be decided randomly and each member of the draft will have one hour from the last pick to make theirs. The draft order will work as usual and will go from 1 to 18, then back from 16 to 1 and again 1 to 16 and so on.

- The draft will take place between 9.00am and 11.00pm each day, though you can still make picks out of these hours, if it's your turn.

Please PM the next person after you've made your pick or if you know you'll be unavailable when your turn comes around, please PM someone so they can select for you.

The draft starts this evening (March 17th) at 7.00pm.

Thoughts?
« Last Edit: March 17, 2013, 03:33:18 pm by KingLuis05 »

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« Reply #10 on: March 17, 2013, 03:25:08 pm »
Yeah of ALL TIME AND you can pick in any order. Same name back of their kits so surnames.

The names at the back of the kits were being printed only since early nineties.
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« Reply #11 on: March 17, 2013, 03:26:10 pm »
The names at the back of the kits were being printed only since early nineties.

Read what King Luis has said mate hes' the brains of the operations.  ;D

King Luis 1 to 18 just sayin.  :D

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« Reply #12 on: March 17, 2013, 03:27:53 pm »
Ok. Regarding nicknames, Beckenbauer's nickname was Der Kaiser. So, Its "D" or "K"? ;D
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« Reply #13 on: March 17, 2013, 03:29:48 pm »
For nicknames like Roberto Carlos, I think it'll only be consistent if we count the whole thing as a nickname it as a nickname and use the first letter, so the 'R'. Otherwise you get a strange grey area e.g. is th Brazilian player's nickname Juninho or Juninho Pernambucano?

If they use a name which is different to their official name, it's a nickname and its first letter is the one we use.

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« Reply #14 on: March 17, 2013, 03:31:52 pm »
Sounds great.

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« Reply #15 on: March 17, 2013, 03:32:26 pm »
Read what King Luis has said mate hes' the brains of the operations.  ;D

King Luis 1 to 18 just sayin.  :D

I'll change that now. My cheeky copy/paste job got busted there. I'll update the opening post with the rules too.

Ok. Regarding nicknames, Beckenbauer's nickname was Der Kaiser. So, Its "D" or "K"? ;D

Stop being difficult or you're picking last  ;D

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« Reply #16 on: March 17, 2013, 03:33:58 pm »
Can't we start before 7? :P

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« Reply #17 on: March 17, 2013, 03:34:52 pm »
For the Brazilians and we do love them it will be their nicknames or in case of some one like Roberto Carlos the R in COMPLAINERS  is taken.

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« Reply #18 on: March 17, 2013, 03:35:43 pm »
Can't we start before 7? :P

I can randomize the list and set up the selections thread now if everyone's OK with it?

Don't want to start the time limit until 7 as some may not know we've started yet, but you can pick if it's your go.

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« Reply #19 on: March 17, 2013, 03:36:54 pm »
Yeah go for it mate but PM everyone in the draft.

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« Reply #20 on: March 17, 2013, 03:37:16 pm »
I take it this draft is named after Anywhichwayucan

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« Reply #21 on: March 17, 2013, 03:38:00 pm »
Also what happens with 3 worded names? Like Shawn Wright Phillips or Robin van Persie?

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« Reply #22 on: March 17, 2013, 03:40:10 pm »
I can't think of any half decent footballers beginning with 'O'.
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« Reply #23 on: March 17, 2013, 03:40:25 pm »
^^ Where going with COMPLAINERS.

Also what happens with 3 worded names? Like Shawn Wright Phillips or Robin van Persie?

Why didn't you just agree with me to an International draft?

If you choose of SWP he won't be in it as on the back of his shirt it's Wright-Phillips.

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« Reply #24 on: March 17, 2013, 03:44:05 pm »
I'll change that now. My cheeky copy/paste job got busted there. I'll update the opening post with the rules too.

Stop being difficult or you're picking last  ;D

Haha. I was a bit confused with the "nickname" issue.

Even 7 PM today would be early. Since its Sunday, many would be out and all. We should wait for everyone to respond before we go ahead with this.
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« Reply #25 on: March 17, 2013, 03:53:08 pm »
This draft will proceed as intended. No deviating from the course the Captain has spoken.

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« Reply #26 on: March 17, 2013, 03:55:42 pm »
I take it this draft is named after Anywhichwayucan
Not at all, I think I'm the only person who said he is completely not fussed about the rules.

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« Reply #27 on: March 17, 2013, 04:03:40 pm »
This draft will proceed as intended. No deviating from the course the Captain has spoken.

SK's right, I don't want to start it if people are still out doing things. We'll push the start time back to tomorrow morning so that everyone gets a chance to see the thread.

Want me to get the order/selection thread done?

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« Reply #28 on: March 17, 2013, 04:12:29 pm »
SK's right, I don't want to start it if people are still out doing things. We'll push the start time back to tomorrow morning so that everyone gets a chance to see the thread.

Want me to get the order/selection thread done?

Was havin a laugh mate.  ;D

Yeah we start this tomorrow then but get the selection thread and order done now.

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« Reply #29 on: March 17, 2013, 04:18:24 pm »
Right, used random.org and got this list:

Flon
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Betty Blue
El Lobo
Samie
Crosby Nick
Hazell
Aldo Raine
Rob K
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Timestamp: 2013-03-17 16:14:32 UTC

I'll send everyone a PM and set up a selections thread but the time limit doesn't start until tomorrow at 9 a.m..

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« Reply #30 on: March 17, 2013, 04:24:37 pm »
Very interesting. Can't wait.  :D

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« Reply #31 on: March 17, 2013, 04:25:36 pm »
I am number 6.  ;D

happy with that.

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« Reply #32 on: March 17, 2013, 04:30:54 pm »
Fuck random.org

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« Reply #33 on: March 17, 2013, 04:31:05 pm »
I fucking hate being in the middle of these things.

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« Reply #34 on: March 17, 2013, 04:31:09 pm »
Sixth from last. Can't complain though, a great pool of players to pick from.

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« Reply #35 on: March 17, 2013, 04:32:00 pm »
Thanks KingLuis for setting this up :wave
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« Reply #36 on: March 17, 2013, 04:34:00 pm »
Not bad I suppose. Better being last than the middle and there's so many players to pick from that it doesn't really matter
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« Reply #37 on: March 17, 2013, 04:35:33 pm »
What about Koreans?! Never know the correct order for their names!

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« Reply #38 on: March 17, 2013, 04:36:31 pm »
What about Koreans?! Never know the correct order for their names!

How many Koreans are you expecting to be picked mate?  ;D

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« Reply #39 on: March 17, 2013, 04:36:54 pm »
This draft will sorely miss Maradona, Zidane and Kevin Kilbane